From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Checking Process Status Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:47:18 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E480FD6.6040303@ihs.com> References: <3E3F019E.8060308@ihs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044910353 1715 80.91.224.249 (10 Feb 2003 20:52:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 20:52:33 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18iKuj-0000RD-00 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 21:52:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18iKtY-0002Sm-01 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:51:16 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1044910036 43865211 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110035 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6541 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6541 Jay Belanger wrote: > Kevin Rodgers writes: >>CarlC wrote: >>>Understood. My concern is that this routine is going to possibly open a new >>>buffer, and change point. I didn't want the user to wander around during the >>>compile and then have emacs zap him a new screen. I will take your advice >>>into consideration. >>> >>Then force M-x compile to run the command synchronously: >> >>(fmakunbound 'start-process) > > If I try that here (not with M-x compile), I get the message > "Multi-processing is not supported for this system" > (RedHat 8.0 with CVS emacs) That is one of the undesirable consequences I alluded to. > I have problem slightly similar to CarlC's, though. > I need a program to stop at a certain point, and wait until a > comint-process gives some output, and then and only then continue. > (Also, the user shouldn't be able to move the point...) > I thought accept-process-output would do that, but that doesn't seem > to work. What should work? Is a nil TIMEOUT interpreted by accept-process-output as 0 or infinity? If it's 0, try specifying a really large value (like most-positive-fixnum), or calling it in a loop. -- Kevin Rodgers